[ipxe-devel] license clarifications for inclusion in Debian

[Vagrant Cascadian]

greetings!

i've been trying to get some license clarifications about gPXE, but haven't
recieved much response:

  http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe/2009-October/000002.html
  http://etherboot.org/pipermail/gpxe/2010-April/000884.html

i understand that iPXE is essentially a fork of the gPXE codebase, and iPXE
could likely be a viable alternative for Debian to consider.

i know this isn't exactly the most fun or exciting part of developing an
excellent free software project...

even though i can get licensing information for various generated roms
individually (using "make bin/foo.rom"), in order to include it in Debian,
we'll need to get licensing information from the source itself.

given that there are various FILE_LICENCE markers in most of the files, if i
could get clarification from upstream about what license text actually applies
to files marked with FILE_LICENCE, it would make great strides towards being
able to include it as part of Debian.

for example, a potential clarification could be:

files containing the text "FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_ONLY );" are licensed under the
following terms:

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License,
  version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.

as well as licensing text for each of: GPL_ANY, GPL_2_OR_LATER, and BSD2.

including such information in the COPYRIGHTS file would be ideal (though
technically copyrights and licensing are two different things).


additionally, is there a plan to make a release of iPXE?

thanks for your time!


live well,
  vagrant